At Warwik þai henge þe heued anon:
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Mani [Written twice, but erased the second time.] man wondred þer-apon.
God graunt hem heuen blis to mede
Þat herken to mi romaunce rede
Al of a gentil kniȝt:
Þe best bodi he was at nede
Þat euer miȝt bistriden stede,
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& freest founde in fiȝt.
Þe word of him ful wide it ran,
Ouer al þis warld þe priis he wan
As man most of miȝt.
Balder bern was non in bi:
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His name was hoten sir Gij
Of Warwike, wise & wiȝt.
¶ Wiȝt he was, for soþe to say,
& holden for priis in eueri play
As kniȝt of gret bounde.
Out of þis lond he went his way
Þurch mani diuers cuntray, [folio 147a:a]
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Þat was biȝond þe see.
Seþþen he com into Inglond,
& Aþelston þe king he fond,
Þat was boþe hende & fre.
For his loue, ich vnder-stond,
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He slouȝ a dragoun in Norþhumberlond,
Ful fer in þe norþ cuntre.
¶ He & Herhaud, for soþe to say, [C line 6967]
To Wallingforþ toke þe way,
Þat was his faders toun.
Þan was his fader, soþe to say,
Ded & birid in þe clay:
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His air was sir Gioun.
